unleashing capabilities Quotes

You don't know what you can do until you try.

The power is within you. It always has been. How far are you willing to expand the horizons of your thinking and stir that power awake?

It is not unusual to hear a religious leader, a philosopher, or a poet refer to man as having a divine spark within him. Such characterizations infer that man possesses great abilities and potentials. We are frequently admonished to develop our capabilities, reach out, and set high goals for ourselves.

Telling me I can do anything I want is like pulling the plug out of the bath and then telling the water it can go anywhere it wants. Try it, and see what happens.

No man knows what he can do until he tries.

A human being is like a seed. Either you can keep it as it is, or you can make it grow into a wonderful tree with flowers and fruits.

I believe that every human being is potentially capable within his 'limits' of fully 'realizing' his potentialities; that this, his being cheated and choked of it, is infinitely the ghastliest, commonest, and most inclusive of all the crimes of which the human world can assure itself.

We have all been hypnotized into thinking that we are smaller than we are. Just as an undersized flowerpot keeps a mighty tree root-bound or a little fishbowl keeps goldfish tiny, we have adapted, adjusted, and accommodated to a Lilliputian life. But place the same tree in an open field or the fish in a lake, and they will grow to hundreds of times their size. Unlike the tree or goldfish, you are not dependent on someone else to move you. You have the power to move yourself. You can step into a broader domain and grow to your full potential.

Desire is the presentiment of our inner abilities, and the forerunner of our ultimate accomplishments.

It is by extending oneself, by exercising some capacity previously unused that you come to a better knowledge of your own potential.

... people are capable of more than their organizational positions ever give them the tools or the time or the opportunity to demonstrate.

The highest calling of leadership is to unlock the potential of others.

You do not know what you can achieve until you try.

I'm underrealized," Lula said. "I gotta lot of untapped potential. Yesterday my horoscope said I gotta expand my horizons." "You expand any more in that dress, and you'll get yourself arrested," Connie said. -- Twelve Sharp

Too many people never connect with their true talents and therefore don't know what they are capable of achieving.

Most people never have to face the fact that at the right time and the right place they're capable of anything.

Our capacities, our instincts for this our present sphere are but half developed. Let us be completely natural; before we trouble ourselves with the supernatural.

The idea of empowering people and that moment when someone sees what they are capable of is just incredible to me.